TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT on The Outside World :
Members of Portland's Creative Music Guild's board & staff "play music from our latest compilation,
recent CD releases by CMG-related artists and other music we love."

Join CMG's Artistic Director (and alto man) Ben Kates, board president (and guitarrorist) Brandon Conway, flute virtuoso (and
tenor sax) Dr. John Savage, percussionista Matt Hannifin, and guitarista Mike Gamble as they perform live in the studio and also play their favorite music and new releases from the formidable artists in the CMG family and whatever else they feel will inspire you, engage you or outrage you. And who knows who else will drop by when the Creative Music Guild opens the doors...

Engineered by Devin 'Rainbow Raccoon' LaCroix
Cultural Research Staff: El Cerrito Al (for Richard Pryor materials
& heads up), WhatEverest Passman (whose book THE DEEJAYS provided
a lead on who broke "Open the Door, Richard" first when it went viral on radio)Penny Padgett Harper (Locating the Oakland DJ talking about breaking"Open the Door, Richard")

Guest Explorers: Mitch Ritter & the Paradigm Shifters with Ralph Coulson,
Homeric Hip Hopper Thomas Dietzel and calling in to his own show from
Palm Desert where we send out healing thoughts to his ailing folks,
free-form radio pioneer and founding OUTSIDE WORLD producer-hostDaniel Flessas who helps trace the first viral radio hit of 1946 "Open the Door, Richard"
through its many 20th Century permutations with roots in the black vaudeville and chitlincircuit, the white vaudeville circuit, pop radio meme, ethnic hits in Yiddish and Portuguese
to civil rights anthem, household gag line, free speech, anti-quota, anti-war chant and bootleggedBob Dylan and The Band Basement Tape as Open the Door, Homer that somehow all flowed from
an improvising African-American jazz artist's historical footnote of a rainy afternoon in Portland, Ore
where Central Ave-based L.A. musicianJack McVea had a gig and was riffing while rehearsing with the
original black vaudeville artist Dusty Fletcher who developed the legendary acrobatic comedy routine into
a hit narrative song and very well-traveled cross-cultural meme. Talk about a song having legs!

Syrian-American poet and Professor of Comparative Arabic Literature, Mohja Kahf's epic latter day Beat
poem "Latifa" collected in her 2003 EMAILS FROM SCHERAZADE will be read by the Paradigm Shifters as
our own healing hymn for the fraying lives, ruined cities and national identity of Syria that continues to unravel. Mohja Kahf's 1990's poetry was championed by Beat poetry lover Andrei Codrescu and his Exquisite Corpse literary'zine and her readings and verse were compared to the ecstatic work of Allen Ginsberg andAugust Kleinzahler for the precise limning of day-to-day experiences and the fleeting soul associated with herother New Jersey poetry pioneering neighbors William Carlos Williams and the lyrical scientist AR Ammons.

at 2:05 begins a long huge FULL MOON collage consisting of myriad sound sources all blended together in a singing, dancing cacophony until around 3:10 am when i went out into the night to drive bagels to Salem and listen to the Pickle Feather Express...

elements of the collage include excerpts from the following:
Wendy Carlos' WINTER from Sonic Seasonings (Columbia), Sun Ra's Medicine for a Nightmare (from The Singles on Doxy Music), Terje Isungset's WINTER SONGS (music played entirely on instruments made of ice (recorded in an igloo in Norway!) (on ALL ICE RECORDS), Chibite by Hukwe Zawose & his nephew, from Zimbabwe (Real World), Meredith Monk's Songs from The Hill/Tablet (wergo), Pink Floyd live in Amsterdam 1969 (bootleg), Bill Laswell &David Solid Gould's Dub of The Passover (Tzadik), an old record Devin found in our library of Amazonian ritual music, sounds of traffic in the rain at night on a freeway, FUCK SHIT UP, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore & Christian Marclay (Victo), a record of trains, Robert Wilson's slowed down crickets, Syd Barrett from Barrett, Miles Davis' Sanctuary (written by Wayne Shorter) and part of Miles Runs The Voodoo Down from Bitches Brew, and..... ?